Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational attempt to save some of the 150,000 U. S. citizens who are killed by the disease every year, Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, famed researcher on cancer and heredity and head of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, this week published the first calm, sensible handbook on cancer.* Significant facts...
...since 1916 has Jane's been edited by a Jane. Founded 41 years ago by Fred T. Jane, a Devonshire parson's sea-smitten son who had run away to London in his youth to write about ships, Jane's handbook was turned over to Dr. Oscar Parkes on the death of Founder Jane. Dr. Parkes, who combined his practice as a London neurologist with an interest in the world's fighting ships, served during the latter part of the World War in Britain's crack Naval Intelligence Division...
...medical profession by one of its greatest bran enthusiasts. Its author is Dr. Bernard Fantus, professor of therapeutics of the University of Illinois' medical school. Eighteen years ago, before the profession in general had really begun its modern investigation of cathartics, the American Medical Association published a handbook on the subject written by Dr. Fantus. One of its chapters was on bran, of which he was an early advocate...
Last year's Crimson Varsity swimmers won 13 places on the National Collegiate Athletic Association's All-American Swimming Team for 1937-38, according to the N. C. A. A. Official Handbook published last week. Eight Harvard swimmers are mentioned as ranking with the country's best...
Propaganda. The Motorist's Handbook demonstrates that GM's customer research is not merely a fact-finding project. It is also a highly polished sales and propaganda device. And there is no question that the selling aspects of Weaver's activities are fully as valuable to GM as the research findings...